Techniques of the Selling Writer

This book provides solid instruction for persons who want to write and sell fiction, not just to talk and study about it. It gives the background, insights, and specific procedures needed by all beginning writers. Here one can learn how to group words into copy that moves, movement into scenes, and scenes into stories; how to develop characters, how to revise and polish, and finally, how to sell the product.
This is the book for writers who want to turn rejection slips into cashable checks.

About the author

Dwight V. Swain spent a lifetime writing newspaper and magazine articles, pulp fiction, and screenplays. For more than twenty years he taught in the Professional Writing Program at the University of Oklahoma. His popular books, Techniques of the Selling Writer and Creating Characters: How to Build Story People are published by the University of Oklahoma Press.

Product details

• Authors: Dwight V Swain, Dwight V. Swain
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1981
• EAN: 9780806111919
• ISBN: 978-0-8061-1191-9
• No. of pages: 330
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 202 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 364 g
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Literature: general, reference works